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"This is a subject that is close to my heart bearing in mind I've been involved in Drilling Structures for 30+ years. I have become increasingly frustrated in recent years at the trend to let almost anyone carry out and report on a Cat III or…"

"Clean out with highly viscous brines (NaCl, CaCl,Bromides, etc. depending on BHP). Then plan on installing a properly sized screen across the open hole or the existing screen."

"Its important to have exact dimensions on what was ran in the hole. O.D.'s - I.D.'s - lengths - fishing necks etc. Its common to go on a rig and these dimensions are slightly off for a number of reasons. Fishing is also a lot of common…"

"For five - years inspection , please see the inspection procedure as follows, Lowering of Mast Dismantle mast into sections  , Mast bottom section (ODS&DS) , Mast middle section  (ODS&DS), Mast top  section (ODS&DS) …"

"There are Companies that Xray equipment such as those you are talking about. can't recall any Company's names, though.  "

"what are you fishin for?"

"get the right tools for the job  "

"Visual inspection is great, but bolts need to be torque checked and some of them pulled to check for corrosion, and fr missing safety pins.A few frame members should also be pulled to check for corrosion between the two member.And the main pins…"

"If KCl is 100% pour then:   0.986 bbls. of Water + 11.6 # KCl should provide a bbl. of 8.5 ppg KCl brine."

"The Coflexip flexible hose structure consist of the following eight layers. 1. The thermoplastic inner liner The thermoplastic inner liner makes the pipe leak-proof. This layer limits the upperservice temperature of the line and the chemical…"

"i hope they will be OK, but further details will be required especially the root cause, so preventive measures can be taken in the future  "